What:
The Hon. Ralph D. Gants will present the annual address on the state of the judiciary to the legal community at the Massachusetts Bar Association's Bench-Bar Symposium in the John Adams Courthouse.
Trial Court Chief Justice Paula M. Carey, Trial Court Administrator Harry Spence, and Massachusetts Bar Association President Robert W. Harnais will also deliver remarks.
Chief Justice Gants was sworn-in as the 37th Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court on July 28, 2014. He was first appointed to the Supreme Judicial Court in January 2009 as an Associate Justice. Prior to that, he served as an Associate Justice of the Superior Court since 1997. Chief Justice Gants formerly served as co-chair of the Massachusetts Access to Justice Commission and as the Justice member of the Supreme Judicial Court's Standing Committee on Pro Bono Legal Services. He chaired the Standing Committee that revised the Model Jury Instructions on Homicide in 2013.
When:
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
4 p.m.
Where:
Great Hall
John Adams Courthouse
One Pemberton Square
Boston, MA 02108